Still Life
10 best books like Still Life (A.S. Byatt): Underworld, The Georgian Rake, Awaken, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, The Walled Orchard, Arthurian Romances, Lorna Doone, The History Man, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
| Author | Meg Cabot |
| ISBN | 0545415071 |
Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead.
Not this time.
But she is being held against her will in the dim, twilit world between heaven and hell, where the spirits of the deceased wait...
| Author | Alice Chetwynd Ley |
| ISBN | 0552104825 |
Amanda Twyford had to face the unwelcome news that Charles Barsett would wed her sister Isabella. Charles' reputation as a rogue made such a marriage unthinkable to Amanda - but not to Isabella, a dutiful daughter whose head was turned by Charles' title and wealth. It was left to Amanda to prove that Charles...
| Author | Meg Cabot |
| ISBN | 0545284120 |
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, the dark reimagining of the Persephone myth comes to a thrilling conclusion.
Death has her in his clutches. She doesn't want him to let her go. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera knew by accepting the love of John Hayden, she'd be forced...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 0684842572 |
These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other phenomena. Fine line-drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi enhance the mysterious and sometimes chilling mood.
The...
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 0374530491 |
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories--which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"--written over the span of his career. In them we find loneliness, love, and...
| Author | Tom Holt |
| ISBN | 0349114528 |
Βαθμολογία: 9/10
Ο Βρετανός Τομ Χολτ, είναι ένας συγγραφέας γνωστός για τα χιουμοριστικά και σατιρικά μυθιστορήματα του, τα περισσότερα εκ των οποίων...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0140445218 |
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen...
| Author | R.D. Blackmore |
| ISBN | 0143039326 |
This enduring 19th century classic (never out of print since it was first published) has been on my radar ever since I saw an old black-and-white film version of it as a kid; but my interest was really piqued by the 2000 BBC/A&E miniseries adaptation. (As it turns out, I would rate the fidelity of the...
| Author | Malcolm Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0099149109 |
[4.5] For 25 years I'd mistakenly conflated Malcolm Bradbury with old Catholic tut-tutter Malcolm Muggeridge (arguably the male Mary Whitehouse) and as a result I'd missed out on some awesome fun in this book. I'd always been a little bemused as to why Bradbury was mentioned alongside more famous writers...
| Author | Jeffrey Ford |
| ISBN | 0060936177 |
A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque tells the story of portraitist Piero Piambo, who is offered a commission unlike any other. The client is Mrs. Charbuque, a wealthy and elusive woman who asks Piambo to paint her portrait, though with one bizarre twist: he may question...
| Author | Anita Brookner |
| ISBN | 0140147454 |
Riveting. Even when a frivolous person and so-called friend, Alix, decides to betray our narrator, Frances, the latter is constitutionally incapable of perceiving the underhandedness. Frances hasn’t been prepared for duplicity and dissembling in life, of which Alix is the keenest exemplar....
Cele zece iubiri ale lui Nishino
| Author | Hiromi Kawakami |
| ISBN | 9734653784 |
Cartea lui Hiromi Kawakami cuprinde marturisirile a zece femei si tot atitea povestiri din care, pornind de la frinturi de amintiri, cititorii pot recompune personalitatea fascinanta, greu de prins, magnetica a unui barbat. Fie ca este vorba despre legaturi adolescentine sau din amiaza vietii,...
